Title
Ghost town
1955
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Hill End
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- Date
- 1955
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on hardboard
- Dimensions
- 37.0 x 46.7 cm board
- Signature & date
Signed and dated upper c. verso, brush and black ink "brett whiteley 1955".
- Credit
- Bequest of Beryl Whiteley 2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 208.2012
- Copyright
- © Wendy Whiteley/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Brett Whiteley
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About
'Ghost town' was inspired by the forrays of Russell Drysdale and Donald Friend to the abandoned gold mining towns of Hill End and Sofala in the 1940s, and in 1955 Whiteley made his own journey there, making studies of the rambling ruins and deserted streetscapes.
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Where the work was made
Hill End